![]() Love and Jones provided that punch after the quarterback hit his running back over the middle on an option route, and Jones did the rest, sprinting away for a 35-yard catch-and-run touchdown. Later on, facing a fourth-and-three from the Bears 35, LaFleur went for a potential kill shot and a three-possession lead midway though the third quarter. The Packers starting running back totaled 17 rushing yards and a touchdown on four carries as well as the one catch for 51 yards for a grand total of 68 yards of scrimmage and a touchdown on five touches during the eight-play scoring march. That gave the Packers a 17-6 advantage over the Bears early in the third quarter. His final play of the drive, a one-yard scamper into the end zone, concluded the possession with a touchdown. His 51-yard catch-and-run off a screen pass from Love drove the Packers down to the Bears seven, putting them near the goal line. Green Bay took a 10-6 lead into the locker room at Solider Field, and they began the second half with the football.Īfter only five carries for 24 rushing yards in the first half, LaFleur featured Jones to open the second half. ![]() Packers rookie sixth-round pick kicker Anders Carlson blasted a 52-yard field goal, his first regular-season field goal attempt right up the middle of the uprights to give Green Bay an extra three points as time expired in the first half. LaFleur curiously opted to let the clock run down to four seconds before burning the Packers' final timeout. Following a second-and-10 sack by new Bears defensive end Yannick Ngakoue at the Chicago 26, Green Bay was pushed back to the 34. On second and goal from the four, Van Ness flushed Fields out toward the right sideline after play-action fake out of the shotgun and then hurled the Bears dual-threat quarterback out of bounds for a 7-yard loss.Ĭonfusing clock management on Green Bay's final drive of the half forced the Green and Gold to settle for a 52-yard field goal. The 29-yard kick near the goal line came after the Packers' 13th overall pick of the 2023 NFL Draft, defensive end Lukas Van Ness, introduced himself to Fields. The Bears' next two drives both concluded with made field goals from kicker Cairo Santos (47 and 29 yards) after third-down incompletions by Fields short-circuited Chicago possessions. Love rifled the football right into Doubs' chest for the first touchdown of the contest. Doubs hit the Bears secondary with a double move before running an in-breaking route to get open in the middle of the end zone for the score. He capped his first drive as the Packers full-time starting quarterback with an 8-yard touchdown toss to Doubs on third-and-goal. Love's first throw of his debut as the Packers starting quarterback hit second-year wideout Romeo Doubs for a 13-yard gain and a first down on 3rd-and-13, a sign of things to come. Both times, no dice with only a yard to gain. Green Bay stifled that plunge, and then the Bears tried it again with quarterback Justin Fields under center. Chicago attempted a direct snap to tight end Cole Kmet. ![]() Love's afternoon began in Bears territory after the Packers stuffed Chicago on third and fourth down with a yard to gain at their own 40. This result occurred even though Rodgers, their longtime bogeyman, was halfway across the country in New Jersey, readying for his New York Jets debut against the Buffalo Bills on "Monday Night Football." That duo along with second-year receiver Romeo Doubs, who caught eight-yard and four-yard touchdowns from Love, helped provide the Chicago crowd at Soldier Field with a familiar feeling of disappointment following another defeat. The Pro Bowl running back and the Packers' sole Aaron remaining in Green Bay, Jones totaled 127 yards from scrimmage on 11 touches - 41 rushing yards and one rushing touchdown plus 86 receiving yards and one receiving touchdown on two catches. Eighty-six of Love's 245 yards through the air, 35%, came with Jones on the receiving end with a 51-yard catch-and-run on a screen pass as well as a 35-yard catch-and-run touchdown on a second-half fourth down. Love's 245 passing yards and three passing touchdowns on 15 of 27 passing were critical in the Green and Gold securing a 38-20 road victory over the Bears. The NFL kicked off the 2023 season in style with the league's oldest rivalry, the Chicago Bears and Green Bay Packers, but it was the newest starting quarterback in this storied matchup, Jordan Love - who sat for three seasons behind four-time NFL MVP and Super Bowl champion Aaron Rodgers - earned a familiar result, a victory, with the help of a familiar face, Packers Pro Bowl running back Aaron Jones.
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